Week 2- Tristan Monteblanco

     Nearing the end of my second week of my experience at the Digital Health Scholars Program, the week featured ups and downs. Yet, through persistence and hard work, the submitting our project end of the program looks achievable but tastes bittersweet. 

    During day one of week two, featured a tour of the engineering building, and time to work on our projects. Me and my partner, Christian decided on the topic of our final project, which was adjusting the algorithm for heartbeat sensors to more accurately read vitals of people with darker skin tones.

    Day two was more laid back, where we were given time to work on our final projects. Here, I struggled a lot, with tons of compiling errors and thoughts of giving up. I was worried that I would not complete the final product for our prototype. In between that, we learned how to solder, and I was unsuccessful again, soldering all of the pins together.  

    Day three included a tour of the clean room, where we dressed up in lab gear and explored machines that created technologies with atomic precision. After that, we spent the rest of the day learning to use the command line in Linux and using that to build Arduino applications. 

The final day of the week started with a tour of the campus, exploring the computer science building, various dorms and dining halls, and learning about the history of Rice. Overall, this week was both exciting and frustrating, but this will help me going into the final week to close out the program.




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